Improvement in school-desks



1. w. GHILDS.

School-Desks.

Patented June 3,1873.

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JOHN W. OHILDS, OF KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMENT IN SCHOOL-DESKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 139,543, dated June 3,1873; application filed April 28, 1873.

a brace applied to desks or other analogous articles, as hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the claim.

I will now describe and illustrate my invention as applied to aschool-desk.

Figure l is a side elevation, and Fig. 2 is a vertical section.

In thedrawing, A A represent the metallic sides, spaced and held apartby intermediate pieces, and connected with a back, B. U is the lid, andI) the seat. None of these form any part of my invention. E is a sidebrace applied to top 0 and made of metal, having the slots 0 e e" e, theformer being preferably at right angles to the plane of top, in order toallow it to be lifted, while the other is areshaped at e 0 and connectedtogether by the vertical part 6 a is the pintle on which the braceturns. and a the stop by which it is held in the oblique positionrequired for the use of the scholar. formed a shoulder, e, that is heldby the gravity of desk-top 0 against the stop a Thus held, the top 0 isready to receive the books of the scholar, and when it is desired toturn down the desk-top it is lifted and the stop carried out of onea-rc-slotdown through vertical slot into the other. lid to be turned onthe pintle a and folded against the back.

Having thus described my invention. what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

The side brace E of the desk-top, having the slot 8 and curved slot e e0 constructed and combined with the pintle a and stop a), as and for thepurpose described.

JOHN W. GHILDS. Witnesses:

JOHN G. TURSNEY, J NO. H. THOMSON.

At one end of the arc-slot is i This allows the i

